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EGL Rich UI is all about Rich Web Applications. In this blog post, I will spend some time discussing what the buzz is all about around web 2.0. Rich Web Applications, sometimes also called Rich Internet Applications, are applications offered via a browser that behave like desktop applications,. They typically serve up data stored on one or more servers, and display that data in a highly responsive... [More]

EGL Rich UI makes the development of Rich Web Applications much easier. Why is that? (see http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/ ) Web2.0 applications are hard to build because developers have to learn many different technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax, Dojo, SilverLight, SOAP, Flex, XML, JSON; the list of acronyms goes on forever. Many of the required technologies operate on a very... [More]

It's been an interesting few weeks as Chris Laffra and I have been working on the scheduler application for RSDC. To give you a quick overview, I'm running the EGL part of the application on a Windows workstation (in fact, I'm running it inside of RBD's test environment). That in turn talks to my IBM iSeries model 270 and exposes the RPG business logic as web services. The front end that... [More]

Well, of course it was William Shatner, not Captain Kirk, but it was still outstanding. Through a series of terrifically funny anecdotes, Shatner related the software development industry to the movie production industry, and often had the audience howling. It was all great fun. Seeing my boyhood idol was just one more of the surreal bits of my time in Orlando. Through my own lack of prior... [More]

Green technology as a core corporate strategy is an ever increasing initiative with companies across the globe. Gartner Group recently published it's Top 10 technology strategies for 2008, ...and Green IT was #1 on that list. We at ClearBlade see the opportunity for a "green" approach to your existing code and data. Similar to it's hardware counterparts, by re-cycling software there are not only... [More]

I noticed that I have been somewhat remiss in that I haven't actually written a formal "Welcome to my Blog" post. This is my first blog, so perhaps you can forgive me that transgression. (I told my good friend David that I had finally releneted and was blogging. His response? "I AM LOCUTUS OF BLOG! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!" Guess he's right.) Anyway, it's that time -... [More]

Although it's not really the focus of this entry, I just like saying that. It's such a good marketing phrase; I wish we'd see more like it. And we could, you know - the EGL team is putting together the kind of glitzy eye-catching technology that could be showcased everywhere from a YouTube spot to a Super Bowl ad (do I have to pay to say that?). I guess though that catchphrase is indeed germane... [More]

Reuse is not a new idea, it's an "old school" mantra from the early 1990’s when objects and CORBA were all the rage (remember AD/Cycle ? Grunge ?). The more things change, the more they stay the same. We've been talking about the value of reuse for a long time now. The promise of reuse is compelling however it has not been widely adopted as a practice. Technology has made great strides in... [More]

Hi I think for this initial posting I am going to introduce myself and from then on who knows what I will spout off about... I have a few ideas. I have been involved in this product and it predecessors for the last 21 years. I started my career as a CSP/DB2/PLI developer working for Air New Zealand and after a few years migrated to the U.K where I freelanced for 5 odd years moving from CSP, to... [More]